Isotopic investigations of seabirds of the North Water Polynya: Contrasting trophic relationships between the eastern and western sectors

Condor

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-11

  Hobson, Keith A ^a   Gilchrist, Grant ^a   Falk, Knud ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; Carbon 13; Diet; Nitrogen 15; Polynya; Seabirds; Trophic level

Indexed keywords

ALLE ALLE; ARCTOGADUS GLACIALIS; BOREOGADUS SAIDA; CEPPHUS GRYLLE; GADUS MORHUA; GALLUS GALLUS; LARIDAE; LARUS; LARUS HYPERBOREUS; RISSA TRIDACTYLA; URIA LOMVIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036190395     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2002)104[0001:IIOSOT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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